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From: "Andrew Sellon" <>
Subject: Re: Classic quote
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 17:23:38 +0100
References: <200107011140_MC3-D7BC-B839@compuserve.com>


Liz's post inspired me to look at 'mordant' in the OED; how pleased I am
that I did for there I found my old friend Sydney quoted:

" That causes pain or smart; pungent; biting. Of pain: acute, burning.

a 1845 Syd. Smith Recipe for Salad 7 in Lady Holland Mem. (1855) I. 373 Of
mordant mustard add a single spoon,"

and all I use is Coleman's in a tube.

Thank you, Liz. (And rather Roy's box than a wooden shell).

Yours aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia
The birds seem to consider the muzzle of my gun as their safest position. -
Sydney Smith 1771-1845, Canon of St.Paul's.

From: "Roy Stockdill" <>

> Liz <> wrote.....
>
> >>> I spy the men in white coats approaching...they're coming to take me
> > away, away.....<<<
>
> >>"And not before time!" she cried, lapsing into a mordant chuckle .....<<
>
> FUNNILY enough, just before they strapped me into the straight-jacket and
> chucked me in the padded cell, I heard one of the assistants say to his
> mate: "And now for that woman who lives in a box. Isn't it time we got her
> out of there and into one of ours?" <b.g.>
>
> Roy Stockdill, Editor, the Journal of One-Name Studies



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